Water for a Changing World - Developing Local Knowledge and Capacity

<p>This collection of papers represents the outcomes of the International Symposium<br>held in Delft The Netherlands on June 13-15 2007 at the occasion of the 50th<br>anniversary of the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. The papers discuss<br>how to contribute to the sustainability of effective international development and<br>water management with a digest of lessons learned on local knowledge and capacity<br>development. Authors expose recent research strategies and policy positions.<br><em>Water for a Changing World</em> starts with an introduction and overview of the water<br>resources and the water supply and sanitation sectors in developing countries and<br>worldwide. Topics of these reviews are water security environmental integrity the<br>newest earth system science technologies integrated urban water management and<br>the global-local nexus of water governance. The second part presents positions on<br>catalyzing and disseminating knowledge and capacity development in response to the<br>current challenges and opportunities. It consists of a variety of papers on theory and<br>analysis of capacity development methods and case studies and policy positions.<br>The authors represent a diverse and representative group of prominent actors<br>practitioners and academics within the water sanitation and development sectors.</p>